The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...

IN A FACTORY on the Carolinas’ border, Stanley Black & Decker is assembling cordless electric drills. As part-finished drills travel in boxes along a conveyor belt, a robotic arm photographs and scans ...

We asked experts for their best arguments in the long-standing debate over whether brains and computers process information the same way. It’s an analogy that goes back to the dawn of the computer era ...

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It was 1983, and Acorn Computers was on top of the world. Unfortunately, trouble was just around the corner. The small UK company was famous for winning a contract with the British Broadcasting ...

A computer -- whether Mac, PC, Linux machine, Raspberry Pi, or even the embedded brain in your microwave-- consists of a set of components. Some manage input, getting data into the machine. Some ...